And one which will save you time & money, while helping you produce your very best work?

Because FrameForge Users do. Expect more from your storyboards!

What makes FrameForge Previz Studio so dramatically different from every other storyboarding process out there?

The answer is very straightforward: FrameForge Previz Studio's award-winning design uniquely solves the right problem, which isn’t how to draw the best storyboard, but is instead how to most effectively prepare to shoot the best project you possibly can.

It does this by having you prep your storyboard shots not by drawing or using clip-art as other processes do, but instead by using its easy-to-use, optically accurate Virtual Film Studio™.

The benefits of this approach are dramatic in the key areas of creativity, problem-solving, communi­ca­tion, cost-savings and improved final results.

FrameForge Previz Studio At a Glance

Fast and intuitive professional storyboard software for film, television, commercial and other film or video projects

Turns your computer into an easy-to-use Virtual Film Studio designed for the filmmaker. No drawing, animation or specialized computer skills needed!

Produces unique Data-Rich Storyboards™ that will demonstratively save your production time and money, while inspiring you to be more creative

FrameForge’s interface was designed to let filmmakers focus on being filmmakers and, in fact, Zack goes on to say that “FrameForge gives me the tools to create that world I need in a speedy and comprehensive way with an easy-to-use and friendly interface.

FrameForge’s Data-Rich Storyboards are unique in the industry, because they aren’t just abstract images of what you’d like a shot to look like, they are literally a visual blueprint of your shooting plan with a wealth of information for your cast and crew that no other boards can match.

And what’s more, you know that you’ll be able to physically shoot every single shot you’ve planned, because you’ve already done it in FrameForge’s Virtual Film Studio and ironed out any problems you would have otherwise had to deal with during the shoot itself, saving you significant time and money on set.

FrameForge users routinely credit the software with inspiring their best work, helping their shoots go more smoothly, saving them money and helping them convince investors. So, what are you waiting for?

FrameForge Previz Studio comes in three editions:

Core Edition for the Indie Filmmaker

Pro Edition which includes everything from the Core Edition Plus Physical Cameras and Lighting Instruments

Stereo 3D Edition adds to the great features of the Pro Edition with award-winning tools for S3D Filmmaking, including real-time multi-rig setups

All three Editions share a common interface and have a huge overlap in function and capabilities.

All three are extremely powerful, optically accurate 3D worlds in which you will previsualize your film, tv show, commercial or similar project. All three can create striking imagery and help you sell your vision to investors, producers or other departments on the project. And all three can help you solve problems before you get on set, improve communication between departments in ways you never thought possible, and save you time and money in a huge number of ways.

The Core Edition has a fully positionable sun and real-time shadows, only the Pro and Stereographic 3D versions allow you to add multiple lighting sources to a scene, including physical lighting fixtures, practical lights and free floating light sources.

And while all three editions allow you to optically match any camera in existence (now or in the future) from super 8 up to the latest IMAX® and HD marvels, the Core doesn’t have physical camera equipment, instead giving you free floating cameras. The Pro and Stereo editions, in contrast, have both free floating and physical cameras.

So, if you want to lay down dolly tracks or see if your equipment is going to fit into a tight corner without the end of a jib clipping a wall, you need to go Pro or Stereographic 3D.

Finally, as you probably guessed from the name, the Stereographic 3D edition adds the ability to prep shoots using stereographic rigs with the ability to view it in real-time stereographic 3D on-screen as you work using virtually any standard stereo display technology from anaglyph glasses with ANY screen, to side-by-side, checkerboard, alternating lines, or quad-buffered… and it even supports HD-SDI so you can drive a cinema projector real-time if you like. Use fully customizable 3D rigs, control your depth for your target screen size, and take control of the new medium that’s sweeping the face of the entertainment world.

FrameForge Previz Studio Studio-quality storyboarding/previsualization software available for both Macintosh and Windows.

Minimum System Requirements

Dual-Core CPU or Equivalent

OpenGL Hardware Accelerated Graphics Card with 128MB Dedicated RAM

750 MB Free Disk Space

1 GB RAM

Windows – Windows XP through Windows 8OR

Macintosh – Mac OS X 10.6 or later

FrameForge Previz Studio comes in three editions:

Core Edition for the Indie Filmmaker

Pro Edition which includes everything from the Core Edition Plus Physical Cameras and Lighting Instruments

Stereo 3D Edition adds to the great features of the Pro Edition with award-winning tools for S3D Fimmaking, including real-time multi-rig setups

All three versions are also upgradeable to a PREMIUM Version which includes 6 full Expansion Packs (a nearly $600 value for a fraction of the price)!

Expansion Packs are themed collections of actors, props, and sets that will immediately expand the range and specificity of your storyboards. The six packs included are World Clothing, Emergency Response, Crime & Justice, Military, Stock Sets and Reel Faces. Collectively they add:

More than 250 additional adults and teenagers in five ethnicities (including Hispanic) with a minimum of 10 characters in each ethnicity/category.

Over 350 additional major World-Ready Objects™ that know how to interact with one another

Academic Editions have the following limitations:

Current full-time academic validation required. Academic versions available to full-time students, full or part-time faculty or staff of an accredited school at the time of purchase. Academic versions can also be purchased directly by the accredited school or institution

The software allows 1 computer installation, non-transferable.

The Academic editions do not allow full actor nudity.

All purchases of the FrameForge Previz Studio 3 Special Group and Academic versions require valid proof that the end-user is an active member of the U.S. military, a member of an approved Government or non-profit organization, or an enrolled Student, Faculty or Staff of an accredited school at the time of purchase. Examples of valid proof include copy of current class registration, military ID, student ID, faculty ID or staff ID. Persons attending film or writing workshops only are not eligible.

Please place your order and our customer service staff will contact you by email for this information before your order is fulfilled.

Characters (four ethnicities, adults can be aged anywhere between 20 to 60 years old, can be made fatter; men can be made “buff”, women can be made “busty” or “pregnant”).

32 Adults (with fully redesigned clothing and hair)

32 All New Teenagers

8 Children

4 Babies

Animal Actors, all of which can be fully posed and are all capable of animal appropriate facial expressions.

Domestic Animals: 3 Cats, 2 Dogs, 8 Horses and 2 Sheep

Wild Animals: Bear, Wolf and Deer & Elk (in both male & female)

Clothing & Hair Options for Adults & Teenagers.

18 hairstyles in 10 hair colors

Over 5,000 different clothing combinations and 27MB of Clothing Textures & Decals

8 Pre-Built Sets

1,150+ World-Ready Objects™ that know how to interact with one another

Upgradeable to a PREMIUM Version which includes 6 full Expansion Packs (a nearly $600 value for a fraction of the price)!

Expansion Packs are themed collections of actors, props, and sets that will immediately expand the range and specificity of your storyboards. The six packs included are World Clothing, Emergency Response, Crime & Justice, Military, Stock Sets and Reel Faces. Collectively they add:

More than 250 additional adults and teenagers in five ethnicities (including Hispanic) with a minimum of 10 characters in each ethnicity/category.

Over 350 additional major World-Ready Objects™ that know how to interact with one another

Larger Working Areas–as long as you have a decent graphics card, the program can now use all of the available space for the live view and live blueprint view often giving you nearly30% more working space!

New optically reflective mirrored objects — Version 3.6 now renders optically accurate reflections in mirrors, allowing you to truly plan shots involving mirrors while avoiding what happens to this hapless cameraman…

New Room Builder

Can load a blueprint and lay down walls directly on it

Easy Sizing of Blueprints to match their real-world sizing

Can Draw Walls at Any Angle

Fully integrated Curved Walls

Fully Integrated into Blueprint View

Allows you to add set dressing at same time as building rooms

Full zoom and scroll with no restrictions

Walls will now snap together when an edge hits a middle area of another wall, not just at the ends

Can Freely Rotate Walls and Rooms

New Room Builder Viewing Options

Only Show Walls

Show Walls and all Set Dressing and Actors

Only Show Walls and objects marked as “Honorary Walls” allowing you to hide all your set dressing, for example, but still show architectural elements such as pillars and staircases that are effectively part of the structure you’re building

More Intuitive Interface for faster construction

Automatic Room Layout Adjustments when resizing Rooms

When you resize a room in Room Builder that is already dressed, the set dressing will automatically shift to maintain their relative positions in the room, if you don’t want this to happen, just resize the room on the set, rather than in Room Builder Mode

Window & Door Improvements:

Windows now automatically have a frame with glass, including curved walls, which have curved windows/glass

Auto-sizing & Auto-Snapping Windows — if you want a window that opens or has more details to it than just a sheet of glass, you can now simply drag a window object over to a wall with a window and it will replace the plain glass and automatically resize the window object to fit the size of the window it was replacing.

Doors now automatically have knobs on them

Auto-sizing & Auto-Snapping Doors — if you want a door that has more details, inset glass, a push bar, or so on, you can now simply drag a door object over to a wall with a door and it will replace the plain door and automatically resize the door object to fit the size of the door it was replacing.

All New Door & Window Objects

30 New and Improved Facial Expressions and Facial Modifiers — create even more drama and impact in your scenes with new facial expressions such as Concern, Pout, Smells Bad,Kiss and Stubborn along with facial modifiers such as Cheeks Puffed Out, Epicanthic Fold,and Eyebrows Tented along with a revised Expression Editor for easier access to exactly what you want.

More Control on how Textures are Tiled on Walls

More Control on Auto-sizing Floors and Ceilings — you can select certain walls of a larger structure, or all of the walls of a not completely enclosed room, drag in an auto-sizing floor or ceiling and it will fill the area that is selected.

New Snap-Together, Curvable Roads — New Curvable Road Objects function like the curvable walls, allowing you to stretch and curve them to exactly match whatever you need.

Multiple Camera Types (aspect ratios, film/sensor sizes, etc.) on set at the same time (PRO & STEREO EDITIONS ONLY) — in the Pro and Stereo Editions, you can now override the optical properties of any camera on the set (including focal length range and/or prime sets) so that you could have both a super 16 and a Red Camera on the set at the same time and the program will handle the camera differences automatically.

Air Transparency (Fog) (PRO & STEREO EDITIONS ONLY) — you now have full control over air transparency/fog, allowing you even further control over the look of your shots.

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